{"id":78,"date":"2004-02-16T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-16T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T17:29:00","slug":"61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/61","title":{"rendered":"&quot;We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow\u2026&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to formally welcome back the two weary immigrants from the crisp, clean land of the Western shores to the moist, gritty bowl of this Southern port-of-call.&nbsp; GonzO and Shortbus \u2014 you were sorely missed and we, your Southern Family, are overjoyed at your return.<\/p>\n<p>As sad as we were to see you leave a little over five years ago, it was understood that it was something you wanted to do &#8230; <i><b>had to<\/i><\/b> do.&nbsp; It was a journey that none of us could anticipate where you would eventually be led.&nbsp; The possibilities were endless and we wished you well upon your departure.&nbsp; If your feet led you back, we would rejoice, if they led you further along, we would wish you safe journey and good speed.&nbsp; All paths are the right one as long as you keep growing&#8230; continuing to discover yourself and be happy.<\/p>\n<p>Jebus, it&#8217;s good to have you guys back.&nbsp; It&#8217;s surreal, and as Krazy says &quot;<i>I refuse to believe you&#8217;re here to stay until after Mardi Gras and you haven&#8217;t hopped on a plane and left.<\/i>&quot;&nbsp; Here&#8217;s hoping that you stick around for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for Lady and myself, we really love you guys and I hope you realize that you are going to want for nothing.&nbsp; Like the rest of this rag-tag bunch of miscreants, we take care of our own.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the sentiment is mutual throughout the rest of the Community.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home GonzO and Heather, and may DeJockamo ever smile upon your lives and keep you safe.&nbsp; Well&#8230; keep you drunk without illness at any rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to formally welcome back the two weary immigrants from the crisp, clean land of the Western shores to the moist, gritty bowl of this Southern port-of-call.&nbsp; GonzO and Shortbus \u2014 you were sorely missed and we, your Southern Family, are overjoyed at your return. As sad as we were to see you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}